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Angela C. Sontheimer, Managing Director, Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg

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Angela Sontheimer is the managing director of Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg, where she is responsible for overseeing operations, marketing, and curriculum design for the Institute.

She is a graduate of Gettysburg College and holds a master’s in Leadership and Liberal Studies from Duquesne University.

Angela has a background in institutional advancement and has worked extensively in operations and events management. She is one of the developers and creators of the Institute’s experiential leadership development program, “A Transformational Journey from Gettysburg.” This three-day experience uses the Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg as a metaphor for addressing modern business challenges.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie